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Got a lot to talk about this week.

You know, there's seldom a shortage of stuff to talk about, but this is definitely one of those weeks where we can only come up

with like a subset, at least in our sort of planning stages for, you know, for what we're,

what we're going to discuss in a given episode of the podcast. Let me just start by saying,

I think we're going to kick off talking about the situation in New York City.

Now, TPM is based in New York City.

We may have a sort of inherently, slightly myopic view of it.

Kate is based in Washington, D.C.

I'm in New York City. But I think this is a case where this is not just a matter of making a big deal about the local situation.

The corruption case against Mayor Adams, you know, it's been on the national radar because it's

New York City and it's kind of a florid corruption story in the sense that, you know, you

we know that foreign countries like to involve themselves in U.S. politics.

You know, there's a reason why foreign nationals can't contribute to U.S. presidential campaigns.

One of the many weird things about the Adam story is that the government of Turkey was basically trying to, I don't know,

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